"The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's convictions-not obstinately or defiantly (these are gestures of defensiveness not courage) nor as a gesture of retal..."
- Rollo May
"To say a person is a coward has no more meaning than to say he is lazy: It simply tells us that some vital potentiality is unrealized or blocked."
"Courage isrequired not only in a person's occasional crucial decision for his own freedom but in the little hour-to-hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself i..."
"Humor is the healthy way of feeling "distance" between one's self and the problem a way of standing off and looking at one's problems with perspective."
"If the will remains in protest it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against."
"Hate is not the opposite of love apathy is."
"If you do not express your own original ideas if you do not listen to your own being you will have betrayed yourself."
"Depression is the inability to construct a future."
"In my clinical experience the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers."